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Black Forest Labs

Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany · bfl.ai

Black Forest Labs develops the FLUX family of image-generation models, including FLUX.2 and FLUX 3, used in products from Adobe, Canva, Meta and Mistral AI.

AI Core · watchlist · score 78

Positioning

Black Forest Labs is a Germany-founded frontier AI lab developing generative media and visual-intelligence models, including the FLUX family, with distribution through APIs, open-weight licensing, enterprise deployments, and creative tools. Its ecosystem includes named technology and distribution partners such as Adobe, Canva, Meta, Microsoft, ASUS, Envato, fal.ai, Replicate, and TogetherAI, alongside investors including a16z, NVIDIA, Salesforce Ventures, Temasek, and General Catalyst.

Latest signals

  • European tech leaders and officials question U.S. AI industry's slowdown proposal as self-servingYicai
  • Black Forest Labs has developed the new Flux 3 generative model.Handelsblatt, Technologie
  • Black Forest Labs CEO discusses robot vision learning and US cooperationHandelsblatt, Technologie
  • Black Forest Labs uses Modal to benchmark multimodal models across GPU generations.Modal
  • Black Forest Labs, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Synthesia committed to the EU AI transparency code.TechCrunch

38 signals name Black Forest Labs. Members see all of them, filtered by topic, source and date.

Facts, with sources

  • FLUX 3 generative modelProduct launch · Handelsblatt, Technologie
  • Martin Scorsese became a partner and adviser to Black Forest LabsPartnership · TechCrunch
  • Nearly €387 million raised to scale FLUX visual AI modelsTotal funding · EU-Startups
  • FLUX.2 image-generation models optimized for NVIDIA RTX GPUsProduct launch · NVIDIA blogs

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Scores, AI Core (of 10)

Deployment8
Production8
Commercials1
Progress10
Technology8
Positioning8
Firepower6
Leverage10

Traction: deployment, production, commercials, progress. Capability: technology, positioning, firepower, leverage.

Questions this page answers

What does Black Forest Labs do?

Black Forest Labs develops the FLUX family of image-generation models, including FLUX.2 and FLUX 3, used in products from Adobe, Canva, Meta and Mistral AI. Black Forest Labs is a Germany-founded frontier AI lab developing generative media and visual-intelligence models, including the FLUX family, with distribution through APIs, open-weight licensing, enterprise deployments, and creative tools. Its ecosystem includes named technology and distribution partners such as Adobe, Canva, Meta, Microsoft, ASUS, Envato, fal.ai, Replicate, and TogetherAI, along

Where does Black Forest Labs rank in ai core?

Black Forest Labs is on the AI Core watchlist list of Frontier Tech Intelligence with a score of 78 out of 100, below the Top 100.

Where is Black Forest Labs based and when was it founded?

Black Forest Labs is based in Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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